SAVVY: Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy

A resource library of best-practice methods for strengthening vital events monitoring and measurement, including causes of death.

Sample Vital Registration with Verbal Autopsy(SAVVY) is a system for strengthening vital events monitoring and measurement, including causes of death. SAVVY provides nationally representative information about levels and causes of mortality as well as other indicators not available from other sources.

The relevant SAVVY system applications that use CSPro are within the folder called “SAVVY CSPro.” All files within the SAVVY CSPro subfolder need to be copied to your computer’s hard drive in order for you to run them (the SAVVY data processing system files cannot be used directly from this webpage). Two instructional manuals for starting and operating CSPro software, CSPro Getting Started, version 3.3, and CSPro User’s Guide, version 3.3, are in the “CSPro” folder.

Field Office Manager's Manualdescribes the roles and responsibilities of the field office manager, a senior district official responsible for managing operations of the SAVVY system at the district or province level.

Census Survey Field Manuals

Census Interviewer's Manual provides baseline census interviewers with a complete description of their roles and responsibilities. This manual also includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs:

Census Update Interviewer's Manual provides census update interviewers with a description of their roles and responsibilities. The manual provides guidelines for canvassing an assignment area, reading and updating an assignment area map, reading and revising a pre-printed address listing book, and completing the SAVVY census update questionnaire and SAVVY census change questionnaire. This manual also includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs.

Census Supervisor's Manual prepares census supervisors for their role and responsibilities during the baseline and the update rounds of the census. It provides guidelines for supervising interviewers when they are canvassing assignment areas, reading and updating maps, completing address listing books, and completing SAVVY baseline and update census questionnaires. This manual also includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs:

Census Supervisor Coordinator's Manual describes the duties of the census supervisor coordinator during the baseline census and the census update rounds. The manual provides guidelines on the field observation of census supervisors in order to determine if interviewers are being properly trained and monitored during the interview period. This manual also includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs:

Verbal Autopsy Field Manuals

Key Informant's Manual provides key informants with a description of their roles and responsibilities in the SAVVY system. The manual is used as a training and reference guide for reporting deaths in assignment areas, and procedures to follow for setting up appointments for verbal autopsy interviews. This manual includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs:

Verbal Autopsy Interviewer's Manual provides verbal autopsy interviewers with a description of their roles and responsibilities. The manual is to be used as a training and reference guide during an interviewer's course of work within their assignment areas. The manual provides guidelines for working with key informants, and procedures to follow when conducting interviews with bereaved families. This manual includes documents that can be revised to meet local needs:

Verbal Autopsy Supervisor's Manual specifies the procedures and criteria to be used during selection and training of various cadres; and also highlights the supervisory and administrative arrangements that need to be made and implemented before, during, and after completion of data collection.

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